US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 11 for "Patient support" (Michigan, Hawaii Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,612, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient support" was invented by Robyn Yukie Shimoda (Honolulu), Ryan Ariel Alvarez (Kalamazoo, Mich.), James K. Galer (Byron Center, Mich.), Brian Cheadle (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and David Scharich III (Coloma, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient support is provided in the form of a mattress for supporting a patient on a bed, such as a hospital bed, and a mattress cover. The mattress and mattress cover may be configured to expand contract to accommodate larger patients, such as bariatric patients, and to return the mattress and its cover to their unexpand...